Multistart Simulated Annealing applied to a Reduced Scale Thermo-Hydraulic Loop of a Pressurized Water Reactor core

Particle swarm optimisation algorithm and multi-start simulated annealing algorithm for scheduling batches of parts in multi-cell flexible manufacturing system

“…Lin (2013) solved team orienteering problem using effective multi-start simulated annealing. Rodrigues et al (2014) applied MSA for a reduced scale thermo-hydraulic loop of a pressurised water reactor core. They have shown that multistart SA gives promising results and is a suitable method when time is critical.…”

“…This problem has enormous practical significance in both FMS and other types of manufacturing applications -e.g., scheduling circuit probing machines for integrated circuit testing (Liu and Chang, 2000), press shop in automobile industry (Salmasi et al, 2010), painting automobiles with different colours (Salmasi et al, 2011) and industrial scheduling (Marichelvam and Prabaharan, 2015). In recent years, particle swarm optimisation 'PSO' algorithm and multi-start simulated annealing (MSA) algorithm has been increasingly applied to various research and optimisation problems (Chen et al, 2013;Santuka et al, 2015;Marichelvam and Prabaharan, 2015;Lin, 2013;Rodrigues et al, 2014). Therefore, this paper proposes PSO and MSA algorithms to provide an optimal or near-optimal solution to the MCFMS problem.…”